Medical workers carry a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 26, 2021. Russia on Saturday reported its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of the year as the country grapples with a sharp spike in infections that has brought new restrictions in some regions. The national coronavirus task force said 619 people died over the past day, the most since Dec. 24. There were were 21,665 new infection cases, nearly 1,300 more than on the previous day and more than double the 9,500 reported on June 1. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A boy is seen on a beach in Strogino District in northwestern Moscow, Russia on June 23, 2021. On June 23, 2021, daytime temperature is expected to reach +36°C (96.8°F). An orange weather warning has been issued due to the heat wave. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





People sunbathe on a beach in Strogino District in northwestern Moscow, Russia on June 23, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





People bathe in the Moskva River by a beach in Strogino District in northwestern Moscow, Russia on June 23, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





Utility service vehicles spray water in Novinsky Boulevard in Moscow, Russia on June 22, 2021 to protect the road surface from overheating as a heatwave hits Moscow. (Photo by Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS)





A woman sits by a fountain in central Moscow, Russia on June 23, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Fadeichev/TASS)





A picture taken on June 21, 2021 shows a woman using her mobile phone as she enjoys a hot summer evening in a park in Moscow, where temperatures have reached 30 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





A woman sprays her face with thermal water at the Pokrovsky Bereg beach in Moscow, Russia on June 20, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev/TASS)





A husky puppy on a boat off Verkhovskogo Island in Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan, Primorye Territory, Russia on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)





This handout photo taken on June 22, 2021 and released by Moscow's Preobrazhensky district court on June 23, 2021, shows jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny as he is seen on a screen during a hearing on his claim against the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, which designated him a flight risk, in Moscow. (Photo by Handout/Moscow's Preobrazhensky district court/AFP Photo)





Students of the Kazan Suvorov Military School prepare for their graduation ceremony in Kazan, Russia on June 25, 2021. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





A medical specialist wearing protective gear sits in an ambulance parked at the Pokrovskaya hospital amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 24, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Migrant laborers work in a market in Moscow, Russia, 29 June 2021. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on 28 June announced that employers will soon be able to organize the inoculation of their foreign workers with the one-dose Sputnik Light vaccine at 1,300 rubles. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





This handout photograph released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on June 28, 2021, shows a Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with British OneWeb satellites is seen at a launchpad at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kms from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region. (Photo by Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP Photo)





Birds are seen at the special purpose section of a graveyard for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victims on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 25, 2021. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A man speaks to a medical worker as pother people wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus stand in line to get a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination point in Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Russia was among the first in the world to announce and deploy a coronavirus vaccine last year, but so far only about 23 million, just over 15% of the population have received at least one vaccine shot. Hampered by widespread vaccine hesitancy and limited production capacity, Russia's vaccination rates have picked up in recent weeks, after authorities in many regions made shots mandatory for employees in certain sectors. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus infection walks past a wax figure depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed at a wax sculptures exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Speaking in a live call-in show Wednesday, Putin said that decisions by local authorities in a number of regions who made vaccination mandatory for some workers should help contain the new wave of infections and avoid a lockdown. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Women walk barefoot across the street during heavy rain in Moscow, Russia on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





The city landmark weather vane in the form of an Angel, fixed atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, is silhouetted against the sun in the clouds in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People watch a brig with scarlet sails floating on the Neva River during a rehearsal for the Scarlet Sails festivities marking school graduation in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)